123 The unit removed all the posters for the celebration and detained the restaurant manager for about an hour on the grounds that they did not obtain a license for the ceremony. On 23/05/2010, the police in Gaza prevented the General Union of Palestinian Women, in Beit Hanoun, from holding a rally which was scheduled to take place to commemorate the Nakba, “The Palestinian Catastrophe”, organized by the National Committee, affiliated to the National Work Committee. According to the testimony of a member of the General Union of Palestinian Women, “the National Committee had earlier notified the police duly of all the events. But the organizers were surprised by the presence of the police ten minutes before the opening of the festival, and the presence of about 900 people, asking the organizers to cancel the festival. The police broke up the festival by force.” On 01/01/2010, Nazira Jadou’ al‐Sweirki, 56, from the neighborhood of al‐tufah in Gaza City died when the police arrested her two sons. They were attacked, beaten and taken to the police station on the charge of lighting candles on the windows of their houses to commemorate the inception of Fatah Movement. Having lost consciousness while walking, when the police decided to take her to al‐Shifa’ Hospital in the city, she died on her way to the hospital. According to information obtained by ICHR, the incident came as part of the measures taken by the security authorities in the Gaza Strip against the cadres, members and supporters of Fatah Movement, to prevent them from carrying out any ceremonial manifestations on the occasion of the anniversary of the establishment of Fatah in the Gaza Strip. On 10/08/2010, the police in Gaza prevented a mass sit‐in organized by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine from being held in the courtyard of the Unknown Soldier in central Gaza. According to information obtained by ICHR, “The Front organized the sit‐in protest against the continued electricity crisis in the Gaza Strip. The police arrived at the scene and asked the protesters to leave the place under the pretext that they didn’t have a license for the sit‐in. When the protesters refused to obey the order, support forces were summoned, firing in the air. Participants were assaulted and beaten with batons and rifle butts, and a number of them were taken to hospitals for treatment.” On 07/09/2010, a force of the General Investigation Service prevented a cultural evening organized by the Film Forum from being held in the lounge restaurant “Sammak” on Gaza beach. According to information obtained by ICHR, “Two persons and the restaurant‐owner were detained for one day. They were